For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
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And to make an end is to make a beginning.
T. S. Eliot, Little GiddingThe Beauty of What Passes
Forms whose disappearance is part of their meaning
Analogy of Move 1 — Yesterday I changed how I've been playing this two chord vamp for several weeks. Going from something practiced but inferior to something with more potential that sounds sloppy on first practice.
Sheet music, key Ebm, 5/4 time
Resonance of Move 2 — Past motifs continually shape our present. A new musical theme echoes 1959's "Take Five," just as Robert Noyce's silicon microchip, invented that same year, silently powers our world.
Sheet music: Take Five, key Ebm, 5/4 time